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September 15, 2025

Jamborees opens season for Cougars, Falcons

The San Lorenzo Valley Cougars and Scotts Valley Falcons opened the high school football season over the weekend with a taste of live action. The scrimmage — meaningless in the standings — was a warm-up for the first game of the season.

A day on the green

SV youngster skates in hockey nationals

Logan Brownlee, a seventh-grader at Scotts Valley Middle School, competed this week in the national playoffs for the nation’s best PeeWee AA hockey teams.

Your Health: Cigarette smoking hits record low in California

Good news has just come from the California Department of Public Health, which recently reported that the state’s adult smoking rate has hit a record low. Last year, 11.9 percent of the state’s adults smoked, down from 13.1 percent in 2009. By comparison, in 1984, 26 percent of our state’s adults smoked.

Olympic hopefuls take the pitch

The 2012 summer Olympics in London gives many of us a chance to watch sports we don’t typically follow, which for me, includes gymnastics, track and field, and swimming.

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News Briefs

News Briefs | Published Sept. 12, 2025

Fun run, emergency preparedness fair set for Saturday On Saturday, Sept. 13, the City of Santa Cruz will be hosting Race the Wave, a 3K...